In three years, the 93rd traveled, 1,703 miles by rail, 2,231 miles by water ... The old civil war cannon, left to the elements, was getting tired. The wooden spokes were soft, and the carriage ...

who also produces the Civil War News and Military Antique Collector for Historical Publications in Charleston, S.C. All the bomb squad needs to do, he said, is put the round in a bucket of water.

“Oh, you can get hurt by this thing - if you drop it on your foot,” remarked Jack Melton, publisher of the Artilleryman Magazine, a specialty publication about Civil War cannons and shells.

FITCHBURG — The two Civil War-era ... or leather buckets to hold charges. The city hopes to complete fundraising by June and send the cannons out of state to replace the wooden base with metal ...

By World War I ... casks, and buckets, which were essential at sea. Well-constructed wooden containers were used not only to transport and protect food, water, and gunpowder, they held the ...

The story lacks the “high-water ... a Civil War reenactment, be warned: It can get loud. Stribling’s Battery, a group of reenactors portraying a Confederate artillery unit, will fire cannons.

the guns at the South Carolina forts where the Civil War began. Jim Thompson of the Fort Sumter-Fort Moultrie Trust said Friday that the group has started an Adopt-A-Cannon drive to help the ...

I still remember the chicken stew I ate that day in 1977 from a wooden salad bowl, with a wooden spoon, wearing a calico dress. Let me explain. My Uncle Dave is a Civil War reenactor and when my ...

But the 6-inch-wide city pipe that still delivers drinking water to a block on Nixon Street here uses an even more primitive technology: wood ... American Society of Civil Engineers.

They also offered genuine "hard tack," which is a mix of salt water and flour baked into a hard cracker that was a Civil War soldier's diet ... each hold two thick, wooden, pointed sticks ...